Flexibility and Stability in the Innovating Economy

Edited by Maureen McKelvey and Magnus Holmén

Examines central issues for the modern economy such as industrial dynamics, structural change, and transformation

Problematizes the concept of 'change' through its focus on flexibility and stability

Engages in front-line research debates on key issues for innovation studies, industrial dynamics, and evolutionary economics

Includes contributions from the leading scholars

Flexibility and Stability in the Innovating Economy

Edited by Maureen McKelvey and Magnus Holmén

Description

Interactions between business, technological, public policy, and organization processes are changing the way modern economies work. In this book the concept of "change" is problematized in terms of flexibility and stability across these processes, examining the central issues of industrial dynamics, structural change, and transformation.

Flexibility and Stability in the Innovating Economy

Edited by Maureen McKelvey and Magnus Holmén

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Maureen McKelvey and Magnus HolménTheme 1: Experimentation and Inertia 2. The new craft skills of engineering: the impact of innovation technology on engineering practice, Mark Dodgson, David Gann, and Ammon Salter3. Innovative Opportunities: A Force Driving Flexibility and Stability in the economy, Magnus Holmén, Mats Magnusson, and Maureen McKelvey4. The Great Experiment: Public-private partnerships and innovation in design, production and operation of capital goods in the UK, Andrew Davies and Ammon SalterTheme 2: Evolution and Adaptation of Structure 5. Complexity, evolution, and the Structure of Demand, John Foster and Jason Potts6. Self-transformation, Self-organization, and Evolutionary Adaptation in the
Economic Process, Stan Metcalfe and Ronnie Ramlogan7. Changing Boundaries of Firms in the Evolution of the Computer Industry: Towards a history friendly model, Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo and Sidney WinterTheme 3: Technological Transformation 8. The effects of Technological Change on the Boundaries of Existing Firms, Paul Robertson and Gianmario Verona9. Transitions, Transformations and Reproduction: Dynamics of functional systems, Frank W. Geels and René Kemp10. Analyzing Flexibility and Stability in Co-evolutionary Processes, Magnus Holmén and Maureen McKelvey

Flexibility and Stability in the Innovating Economy

Edited by Maureen McKelvey and Magnus Holmén

Author Information

Maureen McKelvey is Professor of the Economic of Innovation at the Department of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. She works within the innovation, evolutionary economics, and industrial dynamics communities, with a particular interest in economic and business issues related to biotechnology and open source software. Professor McKelvey is Director of the RIDE (R&D, Innovation, and Dynamics) Centre Magnus Holmén is a Research Fellow at the Australian National University. He focuses on evolutionary systems of innovation, with a particular interest in softward and content creation.